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African Venus

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Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to...
Etudes and portraits were conceived as works of art, the former especially as works of artists whose individual perceptions...
PublisherHarvard University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.51-150
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00144.006
Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The...
The Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall of the Races of Mankind in the Field Museum in Chicago opened in 1933. It displayed about one hundred bronze and stone figures and busts by Malvina Hoffman, and it belonged to an age when “race” was a fully accepted scientific category in European intellectual circles, as it had been from the second half of the eighteenth century until the rise of Nazism...
PublisherHarvard University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.63-74
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00145.009

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